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3rd (Ambala) Cavalry Brigade
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The Ambala Cavalry Brigade was a cavalry brigade of the British Indian Army formed in 1904 as a result of the Kitchener Reforms. It was mobilized as 3rd Cavalry Brigade at the outbreak of the First World War as part of the 1st Indian Cavalry Division and it served on the Western Front with the 1st and 2nd Indian Cavalry Divisions until it was broken up in March 1918. Kitchener identified the Indian Armys main task as the defence of the North-West Frontier against foreign aggression with internal security relegated to a secondary role, the Army was organized into divisions and brigades that would act as field formations but also included internal security troops. The Ambala Brigade was formed in July 1904 as a result of the Kitchener Reforms, the brigade formed part of the 3rd Division. In 1908, it was redesignated as Ambala Cavalry Brigade, 3rd Cavalry Brigade In August 1914, the brigade was mobilized as the 3rd Cavalry Brigade and assigned to the 1st Indian Cavalry Division. A new Ambala Brigade was formed in November 1914 as part of the 3rd Lahore Divisional Area to take over the original brigades internal security duties, with 1st Indian Cavalry Division, it departed Bombay on 16 October and landed at Marseilles on 7 November. It concentrated around Orléans on 16 November and was sent up to the Front on 26 November, on 15 September 1915, the brigade swapped places with the 5th Cavalry Brigade from 2nd Indian Cavalry Division. In 1916, the took part in the Battle of the Somme, notably the Battle of Bazentin. In 1917, the took part in the Battle of Cambrai, notably the Tank Attack. At other times it was held in reserve in case of a breakthrough, although it did send parties to the trenches on a number of occasions and they would hold the line, or act as Pioneers, such parties were designated as the Ambala Battalion. Dissolved In March 1918, the brigade was broken up in France, the British units remained in France and the Indian elements were sent to Egypt. On 24 April 1918, these were merged with the 5th Mounted Brigade, on 22 July 1918 the 5th Mounted Brigade was redesignated as 13th Cavalry Brigade and the division as 5th Cavalry Division. F. Order of Battle of Divisions Part 2A, the Territorial Force Mounted Divisions and the 1st-Line Territorial Force Divisions. The World War One Source Book, archived from the original on 5 July 2015. Perry, F. W. Order of Battle of Divisions Part 5B, newport, Gwent, Ray Westlake Military Books. The 1st Indian Cavalry Division in 1914-1918, 1st Indian Cavalry Division on The Regimental Warpath 1914 -1918 by PB Chappell. Archived from the original on 17 May 2008, 2nd Indian Cavalry Division on The Regimental Warpath 1914 -1918 by PB Chappell. Archived from the original on 17 May 2008, cS1 maint, BOT, original-url status unknown 3rd Division on The Regimental Warpath 1914 -1918 by PB Chappell
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7th Infantry Brigade and Headquarters East
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The 7th Infantry Brigade and Headquarters East is a formation in the British Army with a direct lineage to 7th Armoured Brigade and a history that stretches back to the Napoleonic Wars. It saw active service in the Crimean War, the Second Boer War, in 2014, the 7th Armoured Brigade was re-designated as 7th Infantry Brigade, thereby ensuring that the famed Desert Rats continue in the British Armys Order of battle. When Wellington organized his troops into numbered divisions for the Peninsular War, for the Hundred Days Campaign, he numbered his British infantry brigades in a single sequence, 1st to 10th. The 7th Brigade formed part of the 7th Division under the command of Major-general Kenneth MacKenzie, the 7th Brigade formed part of the 4th Division in the Crimean War. After the Relief of Ladysmith, part of the garrison of Ladysmith were reorganized into the 7th Brigade on 10 March 1900, the brigade formed part of Lytteltons 4th Division and took part in Sir Redvers Bullers advance north. In August 1900, it took part in the Battle of Bergendal, post-war, the brigade was reformed in January 1906 as part of the 4th Division, before joining the 3rd Division in Southern Command in 1907. At the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914 and it mobilized with the division, crossed to France between 11 and 16 August, concentrated around Aulnoye and Avesnes, and moved forward on 21 August 1914. Other than a period when it was reorganized in England in 1918. With the 3rd Division, the took part in a large number of actions in 1914, the Battle of Mons and subsequent retreat including the Action of Solesmes. 1915 was relatively quieter, but included the First Attack on Bellewaarde, Hooge, in 1917 it saw action at the Battle of Messines and the Third Battle of Ypres. On 13 October 1917, 4th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment joined the brigade and on 10 November the 3rd Battalion, on 1 March, the 7th Machine Gun Company joined the 74th, 75th and 195th Machine Gun Companies in the 25th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps. Due to a shortage of manpower, all British divisions on the Western Front were reduced from a 12-battalion to a 9-battalion basis in February 1918, as a consequence, 7th Brigade was reduced from four to three battalions. Almost immediately, the German Armys Spring Offensive fell upon the division and it was once again moved south to a quite part of the line where it was attacked for the third time in the Battle of the Aisne. Due to losses sustained, the division was withdrawn from the line, the divisional and brigade HQs returned to England with 10th Cheshires and 10 other Training Cadre battalions, arriving on 30 June. For the 7th Brigade this meant, 10th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment was reduced to Training Cadre on 21 June and went to England with the brigade 4th Battalion, soon after, the T. C. battalions left the brigade for Eastern Command where they were reformed. The brigade HQ returned to France with 25th Division HQ on 15 September, units left behind in France rejoined the division between then and 19 October. The brigade continued in existence throughout the period, seeing numerous changes in its composition and eventually, in the late 1930s. It first saw action against the German Armys offensive in Belgium and France, on 15 September 1941, it was converted to the Guards Support Group
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10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles
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The 10th Princess Marys Own Gurkha Rifles, was originally a rifle regiment of the British Indian Army comprising Gurkha soldiers of Nepalese origin. The regiment was first formed in 1890, taking its lineage from a police unit and over the course of its existence it had a number of changes in designation and composition. It took part in a number of campaigns on the Indian frontiers during the 19th and early 20th centuries, before fighting in the First World War, the Third Anglo-Afghan War and the Second World War. Following Indias independence in 1947, the regiment was one of four Gurkha regiments to be transferred to the British Army, in the 1960s it was active in the Malayan Emergency and Indonesian Confrontation. It was amalgamated with the other three British Gurkha regiments to form the Royal Gurkha Rifles in 1994, at the end of the Third Burmese War in 1887, it was decided to withdraw the regular army battalions and replace them with a freshly recruited military police force. Recruited in India, it was intended that the police would be a temporary force which would establish order in districts of upper Burma. The military police would then be used to form additional battalions of the Indian Army. The Kubo Valley Military Police were raised on 9 April 1887 by Sir F. B, norman at Manipur in India and was composed in equal numbers of Gurkha recruits and Assam hillmen. The first commander was Lieutenant C. W. Harris, the battalion moved to Burma and was initially stationed at Tamu. In 1890, it was decided to convert the Kubo Valley Military Police Battalion in Burma into a new battalion with the title of 10th Madras Infantry, the 10th Madras Infantry, one of the oldest battalions in the Indian Army, had recently been disbanded. The new battalion had no association with the old except for the name, the relics of the battalion were eventually taken back to India. The 10th Madras Infantry was formed from the Kubo Valley Military Police on 1 June 1890 under the command of Major Macgregor at Mandalay Palace, the battalion did not inherit the precedence or honours of the 10th Madras Infantry at that time by decision of the army authorities. Their reasoning being that it would be incorrect to give such a new battalion the precedence, but it was also true that the composition of the 10th Madras Infantry had been through similar drastic changes in composition. For example, after the Mahratta wars, its composition was changed from Northern Indian to Southern Indian, the initial strength of the battalion was three British officers, eight Indian officers and 277 other ranks. It was not at first exclusively Gurkha in composition, the non-Gurkhas were gradually wasted out of the regiment. In its first few years of existence, the regiment was referred to by two different names in the Indian Army Lists, in 1890 it was called the 10th Regiment of Madras Infantry and the following year it was called the 10th Regiment of Madras Infantry. But in reality, the name was the one used by the battalion until 1892. It became the 10th Regiment of Madras Infantry on 9 February 1892 at Maymyo in Burma, on 3 May 1895 the name of the regiment was changed again to 10th Regiment of Madras Infantry to reflect its now all-Gurkha composition
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25th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)
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The 25th Infantry Brigade was a war-formed infantry brigade of the British Army that saw active service during both World War I and World War II. The 25th Brigade was formed in October 1914 just after the outbreak of the First World War with battalions withdrawn from overseas garrisons and it was disbanded in March 1919. The brigade was reformed in November 1939 just after the outbreak of the Second World War and it saw action during the battles of France and Belgium in May 1940, predominantly with the 50th Infantry Division. After being evacuated at Dunkirk, it remained in the United Kingdom with the 47th Infantry Division until it was disbanded at the end of August 1944. The 25th Brigade came into existence on 5 October 1914 as part of the 8th Division shortly after the outbreak of the First World War, the brigade concentrated at Hursley Park near Winchester and on 5 and 6 November 1914 it landed at Le Havre. It remained on the Western Front with the 8th Division for the rest of the war, in early 1916, the brigade gained a trench mortar battery and a machine gun company. It then fought on the Somme, notably the Battle of Albert on the first day, in 1917, the brigade took part in operations to follow the Germans in their retreat to the Hindenburg Line. The brigades machine gun company was moved to the divisional 8th Battalion, in addition, British divisions on the Western Front were reduced from a 12-battalion to a 9-battalion basis in February 1918 and the brigade from four to three battalions. Thereafter, the brigade commanded three battalions and a trench mortar battery. 1918 saw the return of the war of movement and it then switched over to counter-attack in the Second Battle of Arras and the Final Advance in Artois in which the 8th Division captured Douai. By the time of the armistice of 11 November 1918, the brigade was Pommeroeul, on 16 November it moved back to Tournai and by 18 December had completed a move to the Ath–Enghien area. Here the division commenced demobilization, a process that was completed on 20 March 1919, initially under War Office Control, on 18 November it moved to France where it joined the Lines of Communication Troops of the British Expeditionary Force. In May 1940, the brigade was assigned to a succession of infantry divisions, 5th, 50th, 3rd, back to the 50th, 46th. The brigade saw action at the Battle of St Omer-La Bassée before it was evacuated at Dunkirk on 31 May 1940, on return to the United Kingdom, the brigade joined the 47th Infantry Division. It remained with the division in the United Kingdom for the rest of its existence, order of Battle of Divisions Part 1. Regiments of the British Army 1939–1945, orders of Battle, Second World War, 1939–1945. The history of 8th Division in 1914-1918
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38th (Welsh) Infantry Division
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The 38th Division of the British Army was active during both the First and Second World Wars. The 43rd was renamed the 38th Division on 29 April 1915 and it arrived in France with a poor reputation, seen as a political formation that was ill-trained and poorly led. The divisions baptism by fire came in the first days of the Battle of the Somme and this strongly held German position needed to be secured in order to facilitate the next phase of the Somme offensive, the Battle of Bazentin Ridge. Despite securing its objective, the reputation was adversely affected by miscommunication among senior officers. A year later it made an attack in the Battle of Pilckem Ridge. This action redeemed the division in the eyes of the hierarchy of the British military. In 1918, during the German Spring Offensive and the subsequent Allied Hundred Days Offensive, the division attacked several fortified German positions. It crossed the Ancre River, broke through the Hindenburg Line and German positions on the River Selle, ended the war on the Belgian frontier, the division was not chosen to be part of the Occupation of the Rhineland after the war, and was demobilised over several months. It ceased to exist by March 1919, on paper, the division was recreated as the 38th Infantry Division, a duplicate of the 53rd Infantry Division, it formed in September. It was never deployed overseas as a division, having been restricted to home defence duties around the United Kingdom, in 1944, it was disbanded and its units were either deployed or broken up to reinforce the 21st Army Group in Normandy during Operation Overlord. The 38th Division was recreated on 1 September 1944 as the 38th Infantry Division, in this form, the division completed the training of recruits, who were then dispatched overseas as reinforcements. At the end of the war, the division was stood down. On 28 July 1914, the First World War began and on 4 August, Germany invaded Belgium, on 5 August, Herbert Kitchener was appointed Secretary of State for War. This position allowed Kitchener a largely independent role within the war cabinet and his first act, the next day, was to request parliamentary approval to increase the strength of the British Army by 500,000 men. The first wave, originally termed the New Expeditionary Force, became the First New Army, historian Peter Simkins wrote that Kitchener held the Territorial Force in disdain, calling it an ill-trained Town Clerks Army, and this was partially why he set up a parallel recruitment system. Simkins noted that it would be a gross oversimplification to ascribe Kitcheners decision merely to prejudice and ignorance, on 19 September 1914, Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George stated publicly that he should like to see a Welsh Army in the field. This thought quickly picked up support from politicians and from Kitchener, the recruits were to be drawn from Wales as well as Monmouthshire and from Welshmen living in Liverpool, London and Manchester. The creation of the corps became a source of dispute between Lloyd George and Kitchener and was never realised due to a lack of potential recruits
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Peter Abbott
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Admiral Sir Peter Charles Abbott GBE, KCB was a Royal Navy officer and Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff. Abbott was born on 12 February 1942 and he was educated at St. Edwards School, Oxford before going on to Queens College, Cambridge. Abbott was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1964 and he commanded the minesweeper, HMS Chawton, from 1972 to 1975 and then joined the staff of the Senior Naval Officer in the West Indies. He then became commanding officer of the frigate HMS Ajax as well as captain of the 1st Frigate Squadron in 1983 and he became Director of Navy Plans in 1985 and, having been promoted to rear admiral, he was appointed Flag Officer Second Flotilla in 1989. He was made Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff in 1991 and and he became Commander-in-Chief Fleet and, having been promoted to admiral in 1995, he became Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff in 1997. In retirement, Abbott was made Chairman of the Trustees of the Royal Naval Museum and he was also President of MSSC, governing charity of the Marine Society and the Sea Cadets. He died of cancer on 28 September 2015
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Abdul Hamid Halim of Kedah
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Sultan Sir Abdul Hamid Halim Shah II ibni Ahmad Taj ud-din al-Mukarram Shah, KCMG was the 25th Sultan of Kedah. He reigned from 1881 to 1943 and he was the son of Sultan Ahmad Tajuddin Mukarram Shah and Wan Hajar. During his reign, the Sultan had asked for a $2,500,000 loan from Siam during a financial crisis in 1905. The loan was extended with the proviso that a Financial Advisor from the court of Siam be accepted and this resulted in the promulgation of a new constitution on 29 July 1905. The state council were run by his brothers followed by their sons, the formation of the State Council thus curbed the Sultans administrative powers. The Sultan had several wives and partners, Che Manjelara, Che Sofiah, Sharifah Fatimah Binti Syed Idrus, Sharifah Seha Binti Syed Hussein, Che Spachendra, Sharifah Mariam and Che Laraseh. The Sultans seventh son and twentieth child with Makche Manjelara, Tunku Abdul Rahman and he was succeeded by Sultan Badlishah. Sultan Abdul Hamid was responsible for the refurbishing of the Balai Besar in 1896 and this building was destroyed due to attacks by the Bugis armada and Siamese. The refurbishment was spearheaded by Muhammad bin Lebai Tambi, an architect with the Public Works Department of Kedah State, the wedding ceremony of the Sultans five princes and princesses was held here in 1904 and the celebrations were carried out over a 90-day period. Besides the wedding ceremony, the Balai Besar was also used for installation ceremonies, Sultan Abdul Hamid also built a new building for the Balai Nobat using concrete and metal in 1906. The architecture is the same as the wooden building. The height was three-story and the dome at its apex represents the Islamic element such as found on mosques. It was during Sultan Abdul Hamids reign that Masjid Zahir was officially opened on Friday,15 October 1915, the Sultan also led the Friday prayers on the auspicious day. The architecture of the mosque was inspired by the Azizi Mosque in Tanjung Pura and this mosque is enhanced with five prime large domes symbolising the Five Pillars of Islam
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John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
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He was the only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet and a grandson of the Neapolitan admiral Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet. He is perhaps best known for the remark, Power tends to corrupt, great men are almost always bad men. This idea has been tested in laboratory settings, however, by the extinction of the elder branch, the admiral became head of the family. After Sir Richard Actons death in 1837, she became the wife of the 2nd Earl Granville, marie Louise Pelline de Dalberg was heiress of Herrnsheim in Germany. She became the mother of John Dalberg-Acton who was born in Naples, from an old Roman Catholic family, young Acton was educated at Oscott College under future-Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman until 1848 and then at Edinburgh where he studied privately. His attempt to be admitted to the University of Cambridge failed because he was a Catholic, Döllinger had inspired in him a deep love of historical research and a profound conception of its functions as a critical instrument, particularly in the history of liberty. In politics, he was always an ardent Liberal, through extensive travels, Acton spent much time in the chief intellectual centres reading the actual correspondence of historical personalities. Among his friends were Montalembert, Tocqueville, Fustel de Coulanges, Bluntschli, von Sybel, in 1855, he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Shropshire. A year later, he was attached to Lord Granvilles mission to Moscow as British representative at the coronation of Alexander II of Russia, in 1859, Acton settled in England, at his country house, Aldenham, in Shropshire. He returned to the House of Commons that same year as member for the Irish Borough of Carlow and became a devoted admirer and adherent of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. However, Acton was not an active MP, and his career came to an end after the general election of 1865. Acton defeated Conservative leader Henry Whitmore, who petitioned for a scrutiny of the ballots. After the Reform Act 1867, Acton again contested Bridgnorth, this reduced to a single seat, in 1868. Acton took a great interest in the United States, considering its structure the perfect guarantor of individual liberties. His notes to Gladstone on the subject helped sway many in the British government to sympathise with the South, after the Souths surrender, he wrote to Robert E. In 1869 Queen Victoria raised Acton to the peerage as Baron Acton and his elevation came primarily through the intercession of Gladstone. The two were friends and frequent correspondents. Matthew Arnold said that Gladstone influences all round him but Acton, Acton was appointed to the Royal Victorian Order as a Knight Commander in the 1897 Birthday Honours
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Bryan Adams
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Bryan Guy Adams, OC OBC is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, guitarist, photographer, philanthropist and activist. Adams also had the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles Heaven, Adams has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. In 2008, Adams was ranked 38th on the list of All-Time top artists in the Billboard Hot 100 50th Anniversary Charts. Bryan Guy Adams was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, to British parents, Elizabeth Jane and Captain Conrad J. Adams, Adams travelled with his parents to diplomatic postings in Portugal and Vienna, Austria, during the 1960s, and to Israel during the early 1970s. Adams has a brother, Bruce. Before that at age 15–16 he fronted various pub bands like Sweeney Todd that released If Wishes Were Horses and was seen sitting in with other cover bands. He and his guitarist Keith Scott met during those club years, in 1978, at 18, Adams met Jim Vallance through a mutual friend in a Vancouver music store. Vallance was the drummer and principal songwriter for Vancouver-based rock band Prism and had recently quit that band to focus on a career as a studio musician. They agreed to meet at Vallances home studio a few days later, later in 1978, Adams signed to A&M records for one dollar. Some of the first demos written in 1978 have surfaced over the years, most notably Im Ready and Remember, both songs were covered by other artists even before his first album was released. Also recorded during time was the disco song Let Me Take You Dancing featuring Adamss vocal sped up to meet the 122BPM dance tempo. The song made the Canadian RPM chart in March 1979 along with its B-Side Dont Turn Me Away, straight From The Heart was also written during this period. The song was recorded for Adamss third album Cuts Like A Knife in 1983 and released as a single. Adamss self-titled debut album was released in February 1980, and marked the beginning of what was to become a long songwriting partnership between Adams and co-writer Jim Vallance. With the exception of Remember and Wastin Time, most of the album was recorded from 29 October up until 29 November 1979 at Manta Studios and co-produced by Adams, the album was certified gold in Canada in 1986. Adamss second album, You Want It You Got It, was recorded in two weeks and it marked Adamss first album co-produced by Bob Clearmountain. It was released in 1981 and contained the FM radio hit Lonely Nights, Adams also co-wrote songs for other artists during this time including Billboard charted songs like No Way to Treat a Lady for Bonnie Raitt and Dont Let Him Know for Prism. Cuts Like a Knife, which was released in January 1983, was Adamss breakout album due mainly to the lead singles, straight from the Heart was the most successful song, reaching number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100
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Jameson Adams
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Captain Sir Jameson Boyd Adams KCVO CBE DSO RD was a British Antarctic explorer and Royal Navy officer. He participated in the Nimrod Expedition, the first expedition led by Ernest Shackleton in an attempt to reach the South Pole. Born in Rippingale, Lincolnshire, the son of a doctor, in 1902 he became a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve, and on reaching the rank of Lieutenant he was one of the last to gain a Master Mariners certificate under sail. But he gave up a career to join Ernest Shackleton as the second-in-command of the Nimrod Expedition. Despite the expeditions failure, he was one of the party of four who reached the Polar Plateau for the first time ever. On 9 January 1909 they attained a Furthest South of 88°23′S 162°00′E, just 97 miles from the South Pole, when they were forced by impending starvation to turn back. On his return from the Antarctic in 1909, he entered the Civil Service, recalled to the Navy on the outbreak of the First World War, he became Flag Lieutenant to Admiral Hood commanding the Dover Patrol. Then, after a period of work at the Ministry of Munitions. A bad wound in the head necessitated his return in 1917, and he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Croix de Guerre for his services. After the war, he returned to the Ministry of Labour as Controller for the North-Eastern Division, in 1928 was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He left the service in 1935 to become Secretary of King Georges Jubilee Trust for youth and he remained in this post, apart from further distinguished service in the Second World War, until his retirement in 1948, when he was knighted in the Royal Victorian Order. He never actually stopped working, he became the honorary appeals secretary for King Edward VIIs Hospital for Officers. In appropriate company, his use of somewhat crude invective was often unrestrained and he preferred to be known by allcomers, from porters to the royal family, simply as The Mate. In January 2009, another of The Mates great grandsons, David Cornell, Jameson Adams at Find a Grave
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S. W. Alexander
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Stanley Walter S. W. Alexander MBE was a British journalist and political activist. During the First World War, Alexander served as a Sergeant Major in the Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry, as he was unable to join the British forces as his height was only 51. He was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1918, and in 1919 married Doris Emily Kibble and they had two sons, Andrew and Colin. He was a journalist for the Beaverbrook press, being City Editor of the Sunday Express, Daily Express, from 1948 he was editor of the City Press newspaper. He was instrumental in founding the Society for Individual Freedom and Oliver Smedley described himself and he debated at the Cambridge Union with Lord Longford over the Beveridge Report in January 1943. He stood in the 1945 general election as an Independent Free Trade candidate for City of London and he stood in the 1950 general election for the Liberal Party for Ilford North. He was also chairman of the London Liberal Party and he was also against British membership of the Common Market. Alexander was a believer in free trade, writing letters to The Times on this and other economic subjects. He argued for the restoration of free trade regardless of other nations may do. He contended that the best argument for foreign investment was the right of Englishmen to do what they think is to the best advantage with their own money. Where responsibility for profit or loss resides with the individual there will the best results of investment be achieved. capital and that is the basic cause of the trouble. That is where the remedy should begin, the need is to create the conditions of freedom in which new wealth can be accumulated. And, if we cannot buy cheaply we cannot produce competitively
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Wallace Lloyd Algie
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He was born on 10 June 1891 at Alton, Ontario, the son of James and Rachel Algie who resided at 1155 King Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Wallace was brought up by his parents in the Presbyterian faith, prior to April 1916 he served as a lieutenant for 2 months in The Queens Own Rifles of Canada and 4 months in the 40th Regiment. On 19 April 1916, Wallace signed an Officers Declaration Paper to serve in the Canadian Over-seas Expeditionary Force, Algie was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on 11 October 1918 north east of Cambrai, France, which also led to his death. At the time of his action, Algie was a 27-year-old lieutenant in the 20th Battalion, lieutenant Algie was with attacking troops who came under heavy enfilade machine-gun fire from a neighbouring village. Rushing forward with nine volunteers, he shot the crew of a machine gun. He then rushed another machine gun, killed the crew, captured an officer and 10 enemy, and thereby cleared the end of the village. Lt. Algie, having established his party, went back for reinforcements and his valour and personal initiative in the face of intense fire saved many lives and enabled the position to be held. Lieutenant Algie was buried at Niagara Cemetery, Iwuy, France, the gravesite is located 5 mi north east of Cambrai. The headstone is located at Grave 7, Row C, monuments to Courage The Register of the Victoria Cross VCs of the First World War - The Final Days 1918 WALLACE LLOYD ALGIE Veterans Affairs Canada Securing Victory
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H. Montagu Allan
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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Hugh Andrew Montagu Allan, CVO, of Ravenscrag in Montreals Golden Square Mile. He was the heir of his father, Sir Hugh Allan. He was president of several major Canadian financial institutions and the Montreal General Hospital and he co-founded and was president of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Montreal. In 1942, he and his wife donated their home, Ravenscrag, to the McGill University Faculty of Medicine and he is best remembered as a sportsman who donated the Allan Cup, the trophy that is still awarded today to the Canadian mens amateur ice hockey champions. From 1878 he was known as H. Montagu Allan to avoid confusion with his cousin Hugh Andrew Allan and he studied at Bishops College School in Lennoxville, Quebec, then in Paris, before joining the familys shipping business, the Allan Line. Sir Montagu rose to Deputy Chairman of the Allan Steamship Line, by then he was President of the Royal Securities Corporation, Acadia Coal Company, the Canadian Rubber Company, the Canadian Paper Company, and the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, which he co-founded. He was a director and the President of the Merchants Bank of Canada during its amalgamation into the Bank of Montreal in 1922 and he also served as a Councillor and Treasurer of the Montreal Board of Trade. He was a leader in the Charity Organization Society and a director for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Allan was an avid sportsman and outdoor enthusiast, and a member of a number of sporting clubs. He owned a thoroughbred horse-racing stable, and his horses won several Queens Plates, Montreal Hunt Cups, Members Plates, Montagu Allan was created a Knight Bachelor by King Edward VII of the United Kingdom in 1906 and the following year was decorated Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. Among other clubs, Sir Montagu was a member of the St. James Club, the Mount Royal Club, the Forest and Stream, The Toronto Club, the Rideau Club and the Manitoba Club. At New York City he was a member of the Knickerbocker Club, when the Stanley Cup was restricted to competition between professional ice hockey clubs, amateur teams no longer had a championship to which they could aspire. Allan was an ice hockey enthusiast and in 1908 he donated the Allan Cup. The Cup is awarded annually to the National Senior Amateur Mens Ice Hockey Champions of Canada, but when challenges for the Allan Cup grew so frequent that they became unmanageable the format was altered in 1914 so that regional champions would compete for this prestigious national trophy. Beginning in 1920, when hockey was first introduced to the Olympic Games and this continued until David Bauer introduced a National Hockey program that produced a team of selects at the Innsbruck 1964 Winter Olympics. For his contribution to the sport of Ice Hockey, in 1945 Allan was made a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame in the Builders category. His cousin, Brenda, Lady Meredith donated the Lady Meredith Cup in 1920, Lady Allans father was President of J. G. Montreal, director of the Hudsons Bay Company, vice-president of the Merchants Bank, vice-president of the Montreal Telegraph Company, Lady Allan was a niece of The Hon. Frederick Mackenzie and sister-in-law of Edward Ermatinger, of Montreal. The Allans were the parents of four children, all of whom they outlived, Martha Allan, educated at Eton and McGill University
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Hugh Allan
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Sir Hugh Allan, KCMG was a Scottish-Canadian shipping magnate, financier and capitalist. By the time of his death, the Allan Shipping Line had become the largest privately owned shipping empire in the world and his home, Ravenscrag was the principal residence of the Golden Square Mile. Born at Saltcoats, Ayrshire, he was the son of Captain Alexander Allan. He was a first cousin of Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt and his father was a first cousin of the Scottish bard, in 1819, Allans father established the Allan Shipping Line, which became synonymous with running goods and passengers between Scotland and Montreal. Hugh Allan received an education at Saltcoats before starting work in 1823 at the familys counting house of Allan. Three years later he was sent by his father to Montreal to work as a clerk for the grain merchant, in 1830, he took a year off to travel through his native Scotland and continued via London, New York and Upper Canada. By 1835, Allan was made a partner in the firm that from then was known as Millar, with his fathers encouragement and capital, Allan expanded the companys shipping operations, and J & A Allan became closely involved with building of the merchant fleet. By the time Hughs younger brother, Andrew, had joined now Edmonstone, by the 1850s, Edmonstone & Allan was described by a credit-rating service as an old, safe and respectable House. One of the wealthiest concerns in the Province, known for its management and its links to trading houses in London, Liverpool. Helped by Allans spreading influence into allied shipping, railway and banking concerns, from 1863, the company became known as H & A Allan, of Montreal — one segment, but an important and intricate part of the Allan familys empire. In 1851, Hugh Allan had been elected President of the Montreal Board of Trade, the service, Allan declared, would deliver Royal Mail to both sides of the Atlantic Ocean while transporting immigrants to North America. Though it was Allans idea, competition for the contract was fierce, despite significant support on both sides of the Atlantic and careful preparation, Allan lost the bid in 1853. However, the consortium won the contract, headed by Samuel Cunard, ran into trouble almost immediately. These ships formed the nucleus of Allans Montreal Ocean Steamship Company, incorporated by him and his brother, Andrew and it was carefully created to be Canadian, but it was inextricably linked by the Allan family in Scotland. By 1859, service was weekly, and Allan reported his capital investment in the company at £3.5 million, beyond mail and emigrating passengers, the Allan Line carried royalty, troops, general cargo, manufactured goods and much needed Canadian wheat to Britain. After the Victoria Bridge opened in 1859, Allan became dependent on the Grand Trunk Railway, by 1873, Allan expressed a desire to protect ourselves. At the same time that Allan was falling out with the Grand Trunk Railway, though slow to move into the railway business, by the 1870s Allan had become Canadas most flamboyant railway entrepreneur. He helped to place trusted colleagues in senior positions with railways connected to the venture, Allan himself invested heavily, particularly in those that would link the Port of Montreal to the Canadian West, and became president of the Montreal Northern Colonization Railway in 1871
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Christiane Amanpour
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Christiane Amanpour, CBE is a British-Iranian journalist and television host. Amanpour is the Chief International Correspondent for CNN and host of CNN Internationals nightly interview program Amanpour, Amanpour is also a Global Affairs Anchor of ABC News. In 2013, she moved from New York City to live permanently in London, England, with her husband, former US Assistant Secretary of State James Rubin, born in London, England, Amanpour was raised in Tehran. Her father, Mahmoud Amanpour, is a Muslim from Iran, her mother and she is fluent in English and Persian. After completing the larger part of her education in Iran. She attended Holy Cross Convent, a school located in Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire. Christiane and her returned to England not long after the Islamic Revolution began. She has stressed that they were not forced to leave the country, the family ultimately remained in England, finding it difficult to return to Iran. After leaving New Hall, Amanpour moved to the United States to study journalism at the University of Rhode Islands Harrington School of Communication, during her time there, she worked in the news department at WBRU-FM in Providence, Rhode Island. She also worked for NBC affiliate WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1983, Amanpour graduated from the university summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a B. A. degree in journalism. In 1983, she was hired by CNN on the desk in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1989, she was assigned to work in Frankfurt, Germany, through this position, she was able to move up in the company and by 1990 served as a correspondent for CNNs New York bureau. Following Iraqs occupation of Kuwait in 1990, Amanpours reports of the Persian Gulf War brought her wide notice while also taking the network to a new level of news coverage, thereafter, she reported from the Bosnian war and other conflict zones. Objectivity doesnt mean treating all sides equally and it means giving each side a hearing. Amanpour gained a reputation for being fearless during the Gulf and Bosnian wars, from 1992 to 2010, Amanpour was CNNs chief international correspondent as well as the anchor of Amanpour, a daily CNN interview program that aired 2009–2010. After 9/11, she was the first international correspondent to interview British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac, additional interview partners are Hillary Clinton, Nicolás Maduro, Hassan Rouhani and Moammar Gadhafi. She also conducted interviews with Constantine II of Greece, Reza Pahlavi, Ameera al-Taweel, from 1996 to 2005, she was contracted by 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt to file four to five in-depth international news reports a year as a special contributor. These reports garnered her a Peabody Award in 1998, hewitts successor Jeff Fager was not a fan of her work and terminated her contract
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Bob Appleyard
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Robert Bob Appleyard MBE was a Yorkshire and England cricketer. He was one of the best English bowlers of the 1950s, able to bowl fast-medium swingers or seamers and off-spinners with almost exactly the same action, Appleyards career was almost destroyed by injury and illness after his first full season in 1951. In his limited Test career, he took a wicket every fifty-one balls, as a young cricketer Appleyard spent eleven months in hospital after being diagnosed with advanced tuberculosis. Whilst in hospital, Appleyard kept his fingers strong by squeezing a cricket ball under the bed covers and he had to learn to walk again and had the upper half of his left lung removed. His wickets in the 1951 season cost an average of 14 a piece and he was chosen as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year but did not gain representative honours. After one match in 1952, however, an illness kept Appleyard off the field for the rest of that year. In the first innings, he took 5 wickets, in the words of Wisden, His mixture of in-swingers, off-spinners and leg-cutters, his variations of flight and pace, bore the make of a highly-skilled craftsman. As a consequence, Appleyard was chosen for the Ashes tour ahead of Jim Laker and he again bowled with skill on unusually erratic Australian wickets, most notably in the extreme heat at Adelaide in the Fourth Test, which clinched the Ashes. On a rain-affected pitch, he took 4 for 7, as New Zealand were rolled for 26. He recovered his form well enough in 1956, however, to regain his Test place for the first match as Trent Bridge but did not bowl well enough to challenge Jim Laker for the rest of the summer. Appleyards decline continued in 1958, and Yorkshire dropped him for good in early June, Appleyard became a successful businessman after retirement from the game and founded a cricket school in Bradford. He raised over a million pounds for youth cricket, working with the Sir Leonard Hutton Foundation Scheme for young cricketers and his proceeds from his biography were donated to this fund. According to his biography on Cricinfo, Appleyard became a successful business rep, cricket commentator Colin Bateman also noted that Appleyard won an out-of-court settlement from Maxwell, whom Appleyard had threatened to sue. As a youth, Appleyard walked into the bathroom of his home in Bradford to find the bodies of his father John, his stepmother, at the subsequent inquest, it was stated that John had been greatly disturbed following the recent outbreak of World War II. Appleyard said that It is difficult now to recall the details. I think Id been spending some nights at my grandmas and she was on her own, and I spent quite a bit of time with her. In 1997 he was awarded a doctorate by the University of Bradford. He served as President of Yorkshire into his eighties, from 2006 to 2008. and was an Honorary Life Member of the club, Appleyard died aged 90 at his home in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, on 17 March 2015
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Valentine Armitage
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Lieutenant-Colonel Valentine Leathley Armitage MC TD was a British Army officer and schoolmaster. He was the headmaster of Bloxham School from 1925 and 1940, Armitage was born in Heidelberg, Germany to British parents, Revd Allan Leathley Armitage and Margaret Merwyn Drake. He was educated at The Kings School, Canterbury and the Balliol College, Oxford, between 1909 and 1911 he was a teacher and lecturer at the University of Rennes, from which he held a diplôme des lettres. He returned to England and became a schoolmaster at the Grange, Folkestone, then at Gore Court, Sittingbourne from 1911 to 1913, in 1915 Armitage was commissioned into the Northamptonshire Regiment and saw active service in the First World War. He also served with the Provost Corps between 1915 and 1919, which would influence his attitude to school discipline, and was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry. Following the war, he worked at St. Bees School where he was a housemaster between 1922 and 1925, in 1925 he was appointed headmaster of Bloxham School. The decision was a one by the Woodard Corporation, as it usually only appointed members of the Anglican clergy as headmasters of its schools. As headmaster of Bloxham, Armitage embarked upon a program of reforms to raise the status of the school and he introduced a prefect system with enhanced powers and privileges, and created an environment with strict discipline and the regular use of corporal punishment. Discipline was largely left to the boys in the school. Armitages reforms including daily physical training and an emphasis on academic ability. Under his leadership, the schools Officer Training Corps became one of the best in the country, in 1931 he established the Friends of Bloxham society to raise funds and the profile of the school. Among its early patrons were the Bishop of Oxford, the Earl of Halifax, Armitages most lasting legacy was an ambitious building program, the largest at Bloxham School since its foundation. Coinciding with the Great Depression, this was extremely contentious, fees were also reduced to make the school more competitive, and a result Armitage amounted debts of over £14,000 for the school. The Great Hall, Armitages most notable project, opened in 1937 and he was elected a member of the Headmasters Conference in 1929 in recognition of his work at Bloxham. In 1940 Armitage, still an officer, was called up. He left the army with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1947. He was awarded the Efficiency Decoration for long service in the Territorial Army, armtiage married Venetia Mary Stanley Errington Savile, daughter of Reverend William Hale Savile and Mabel von Bothmer, on 5 April 1955
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Michael Ashburner
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Michael Ashburner FRS is a biologist and emeritus Professor in the Department of Genetics at University of Cambridge. He is also the former joint-head and co-founder of the European Bioinformatics Institute of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, born in Sussex, England, Ashburner attended High Wycombe Royal Grammar School from 1953 to 1960. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Natural Sciences Tripos in 1964, his PhD from the Department of Genetics in 1968, most of Ashburners research has been on the model organism Drosophila melanogaster. Ashburners career began in the period of molecular biology prior to the development of most of the recombinant DNA techniques in use today. Nevertheless, by observing patterns of puffing in polytene chromosomes, he established the existence of a cascade of genetic controls in the post-larval development triggered by ecdysone, the Ashburner model of 1974 became a paradigm for metazoan gene regulation inasmuch as the Jacob-Monod model did for prokaryotes. Ashburner collaborated widely and mentored numerous PhD students and Postdoctoral research students during his career, Ashburner was also a member of the consortium that eventually sequenced and annotated the Drosophila melanogaster genome. Ashburners recollections of the sequencing of the D. melanogaster genome forms the basis of a book entitled Won for All, a prolonged effort by his laboratory to characterise the Adh region became invaluable for validating annotation strategies when large-scale genome information became available. Ashburner was also a pioneer in the application of computers to biology. He was instrumental in establishing the EBI, as well as securing its location in the UK, as part of his involvement the sequencing of the D. melanogaster genome, Ashburner played an instrumental role in ensuring that the resulting sequence and annotations would be made publicly available. Ashburner was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and he received the Gregor Mendel Medal from the Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic in 1998, the first George W. He was the first to make a map of puffs in the salivary gland polytene chromosomes. He went on to demonstrate the effects of stimuli, especially heat-shock and ecdysone, on puffing at specific loci. He has also made important contributions to the understanding of evolution and speciation within the D. melanogaster group of species, Ashburner has unique standing as a scholar and authority in the whole area of Drosophila research
